habitually probing generalist

Saturday – Sunday, 22 – 23 Mar 2008 Mann, T. (2008). “On the Record” but Off the Track” a review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control, with a further examination of Library of Congress cataloging tendencies. , 38. Washington, DC: AFSCME 2910. Retrieved from http://www.guild2910.org/WorkingGrpResponse2008.pdf. [...]

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I have had no internets at home since about 7 PM last night (Thu) and the soonest a technician can come is Tuesday. FIVE days is completely unacceptable! Last night we had a lovely Spring storm in which it was raining so hard that I could not hear the movie I was trying to watch. [...]

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I wrote about this once before (last July) when it had begun but now the major announcement has gone out. If I hadn’t already known about it I would be downright giddy! The University Library has digitized the following publication series from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science: Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (1954-1997) [...]

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This is going to be kind of weird but I don’t know what else to do. Andrea Mercado of LibraryTechtonics has a new post, Article in Conversants. Recommended, by the way. I read her post and then her article, Making library schools smarter. Conversants is using CommentPress which I am happy to see, but until [...]

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Atlanta’s a distant memory Montgomery a recent blur and Tulsa burns on the desert floor like a signal fire I got Willie on the radio a dozen things on my mind and number one is fleshing out these dreams of mine Cowboy Junkies — 200 More Miles A little over a week ago I wrote [...]

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All week DeLillo, D. (1986). White noise, Contemporary American fiction., 326. New York: Penguin Books.   I didn’t say it. The computer did. The whole system says it. It’s what we call a massive data-base tally. Gladney, J. A. K. I punch in the name, the substance, the exposure time and then I tap into [...]

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Sunday, 9 Mar 2008 Smith, L. C. (1981). ‘Memex’ as an image of potentiality in information retrieval research and development In , Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 345-369). Cambridge, England: Butterworth & Co. Linda cited this article when talking about her research on a panel [...]

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Sunday, 2 Mar 2008 Toolan, M. J. (1996). Total speech: an integrational linguistic approach to language, Post-contemporary interventions., 337. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. Read Ch. 4: Further Principles of Integrational Linguistics, or, On Not Losing Sight of the Language User   Sunday – Friday, 2 – 7 Mar 2008   Aitchison, J. (2003). Linguistics, [...]

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Last Sunday, a friend of mine—Jodi Schneider (Science Library Specialist, Amherst College)—and I gave a presentation on Zotero: Manage Citations, Make Bibliographies & Join the Web of Data to the ASIST@UIUC Student Group. [LEEP On Campus Weekend was last week.] We kept the presentation pretty low-key, not a lot of prep work—couple hours each. We [...]

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A couple of months ago it was announced that NetNewsWire was now free for individuals. I saw this news in a few places and read some high praise for it in those and other places. Having been fed up with the assorted problems Bloglines has been having for quite a while now, I decided to [...]

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